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Tura New Music in association with the Music Research Group, CREATEC and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts [WAAPA] at Edith Cowan University, present
THE TOTALLY HUGE NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL CONFERENCE 2011
Perth, Western Australia, Friday 16 – Sunday 18 September
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference, held as part of The 10th Totally Huge New Music Festival, is a forum for artists from diverse areas of music and sound practice, along with critics, commentators and academics, to discuss the ideas which underline contemporary new music and sound art — the histories, methods, theories, approaches, techniques and dreams which make up the modern world of music and sound arts.
Theme: Immanence
The inexorably slippery nature of contemporary culture and postmodern phenomena, such as the deconstruction of identity and distrust in metanarrative, arguably squeeze the individual into reliance only upon the present moment. All music emerges (and dissipates) in the moment. The THNMF Conference 2011 has Immanence as its inspirational theme.
Keynote Speaker: Marina Rosenfeld
Plastic Materials & Local Conditions: Diagram of a Practice
Composer, and experimental turntablist, Marina Rosenfeld is based in New York. Beginning in 1993 with a proto-version of her Sheer Frost Orchestra, a performance for 17 female performers on floor-bound electric guitars deploying nail-polish bottles dropped, dragged and scratched over amplified guitar strings, her staged performances and installations have been widely commissioned by institutions in the US and internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); the Serralves Museum (Porto); the Whitney, Performa and Liverpool biennials; the Holland Festival, and many others. She has been co-chair of the graduate program in Music/Sound at Bard College's Milton Avery School of the Arts in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York since 2007.
2011 Conference Registration Form (90 KB)
Conference Registration Form in Word (40 KB)
Conference Enquiries and Registration Payment
THNMF Conference Coordinator
Tura New Music
24 Brisbane Street
Perth WA 6000
T +61 (0)8 9228 3711
F +61 (0)8 9228 1808
E conference@tura.com.au
Conference Programme
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth
| FRIDAY 16 September | ||
|---|---|---|
| TIME | SESSION | SUBJECT |
| 9.30-10.30am | Registration and Welcome | |
| 10.30-10.50am | Sam Gillies (WA) | Reflections on the Construction of Meaning through Visual Association |
| 10.50-11.10am | Mitch Mollison (WA) | Audio-Score: using audio to directly describe performance materials |
| 11.10 - 11.30am | Suzanne Kosowitz (WA) | Retaining the Sense of Immanence in Structured Improvisation |
| 11.30- 11.50am | James Herrington (WA) | Exploring the human body as an interface for an interactive Dubstep performance environment |
| 12.00-1.00pm | Lunch Break | |
| 1.00 - 1.30pm | Malcolm Riddoch (WA) | Eu Terpein on the River Mnemosyne: Musical fascination as immanent perceptual process |
| 1.30 - 2.00pm | Ant Gray (WA) | On Dying, Secret Languages, and Thinking Breasts |
| 2.00 - 2.30pm | Lindsay Vickery (WA) | Immanence and the real-time aesthetic in music |
| 2.30 - 3.00pm | Afternoon Break | |
| 3.00 - 3.30pm | Christopher de Groot (WA) | Polarities As Conceptual Unifiers – Michel Colombier’s Wings |
| 3.30 - 4.00pm | Glenn Rogers (WA) | The Applications of konokol to Western Music |
| 4.00 - 4.30pm | Mace Francis (WA) | Site and Sound Together |
| 4.30 - 5.00pm | John Davis, CEO Australian Music Centre, President ISCM | Industry Session |
| SATURDAY 17 September | ||
| TIME | SESSION | SUBJECT |
| 10.00 - 10.10am | Tos Mahoney | Welcome |
| 10.10 - 10.45am | Marina Rosenfeld (USA) | Keynote: Plastic Materials & Local Conditions: Diagram of a Practice |
| 10.45 -1 1.00am | Paul Mason, Director of Music, Australia Council | Australia Council recent developments and new initiatives. |
| 11.00 - 11.30am | Morning Break | |
| Session IV | ||
| 11.30 -12.00pm | Darren Jorgensen (WA) | Paganism, Satanism and Nihilistic Musicality in Burzum and NON |
| 12.00 - 12.30pm | Bruce Russell (NZ) | No more Driver call me, many thousand die’: improvised noise considered as twenty-first century field hollers and prison songs |
| 12.30 - 1.00pm | Nicholas Russo (NSW) | Never Mind the History: Here’s What We Think It Sounded Like |
| 1.00 - 2.00pm | Lunch Break | |
| Session V | ||
| 2.00 - 2.30pm | Nat Bates (Vic) | Sampling and the 'sound object' in contemporary Sonic Art |
| 2.30 - 3.00pm | Inge Ølmheim (Vic) | Critical Theory and Audible Feedback Systems |
| 3.00 - 3.30pm | Dr Cat Hope (WA) | The Possibilities of a Line: From Glissandi to pitch lines as a formal tools in Music |
| 3.30 -4.00pm | Sonia Leber and David Chesworth (Vic) | Space-Shifter: the trickster as a self-enjoying voice |
| 4.00 - 4.30pm | Afternoon Break | |
| Session VI | ||
| 4.30 - 5.00pm | Anthony Pateras (Vic) | Affects of technology and the web on creative practice |
| 5.00 - 5.30pm | Austin Buckett (Vic) | The Work of Peter Albinger |
| SUNDAY 18 September | ||
| Session VII | ||
| 10.00 - 10.30am | Dr Joanna Drimatis (NSW) | Symphony No.1 by Robert Hughes |
| 10.30 -1 1.00am | Dr Jonathan Paget and Melissa Branson (WA) | The Minimalist Connection in Australian Guitar Music |
| 11.00 - 11.30am | Roland Adeney (WA) | How play and in music and space improvisation facilitate immersion and immediacy |
| 11.30 - 12.00pm | Stuart James (WA) | Timbral Spatialisation: toward an efficient and compact method of control |
| 12.00 - 1.00pm | Lunch Break | |
| Session VIII | ||
| 1.00 - 1.30pm | Josh Webster (WA) | Australian works for the cimbalom |
| 1.30 - 2.00pm | SKoT McDonald(WA) | The Arcophone: The Perth Artifactory's Creative Sparks |
| 2.00 - 2.30pm | Samuel van Ransbeeck (Portugal) | The Music Under Rusty Records: Restoring Risset’s Duet for One Pianist |
| 2.30 - 3.00pm | Afternoon Break | |
| Session IX | ||
| 3.00 - 3.30pm | Melanie Walters (SA) | A Recital of Late Twentieth Century Australian Flute Music |
| 3.30 - 3.45pm | Eugene Ughetti (Vic) | Australian Percussion Composition |
| 3.45 - 4.00pm | Dr Bruce Mowson (VIC) | A Good Trip: Blind walking and philosophy |
| 7.00pm | Conference Dinner | |
THNMF Conference 2011 Registration Fees
| Registration Type | Registration Fee: Standard |
Registration Fee: Concession |
|
| 1 | Full Conference Registration | $150.00 | $70.00 |
| 2 | Full Conference Registration, Weekend Concerts* and Conference Dinner | $200.00 | $120.00 |
| 3 | Full Conference Registration, Conference Dinner and ALL totally Huge New Music Festival Concerts and Events | $450.00 | $220.00 |
| 4 | Day Rate | $100.00 | $50.00 |
| 5 | Session Rate | $50.00 | $25.00 |
| 6 | Conference Dinner | $40.00 | $40.00 |
2011 Conference Registration Form (90 KB)
Conference Registration Form in Word (40 KB)
Full Conference Registration and Day Rates include morning and afternoon tea on Saturday and Sunday.
*Weekend Concerts: One ticket for the following events:
Friday, 16 September
6pm Warmun Surround Sound by Philip Samartzis @ STC
8pm Piano Tapestry @ The Studio Underground, STC with Anthony Pateras, Ross Bolleter and Mark Gasser
10pm Club Huge @ Pica Bar featuring Marina Rosenfeld
Saturday, 17 September
6pm Warmun Surround Sound by Philip Samartzis @ STC
8pm Flesh and Ghost, Speak Percussion @ The Studio Underground, STC
10pm Club Huge @ Pica Bar featuring Pollen Trio and Anthony Pateras
Sunday 18 September
5pm Etica @ The Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre
Conference Enquiries and Registration Payment
THNMF Conference Coordinator
Tura New Music
24 Brisbane Street
Perth WA 6000
T +61 (0)8 9228 3711
F +61 (0)8 9228 1808
E conference@tura.com.au
